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Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2006]
Edition
Standard version.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (103 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Detective Marlow sets out to find the missing wife of a publishing magnate. Several smack-arounds, one dead gigolo, a few angry cops, a booze-soaked frame-up and one dame in the lake later, Marlowe finds the killer and finds that he's also looking at the business end of a gun.
Author
Series
Philip Marlowe mysteries volume 11
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Has Philip Marlowe finally met his match? It's early fall when a heatwave descends on Los Angeles. Private Detective Philip Marlowe is called to the Montgomery estate, an almost mythic place sitting high on top of Beverly Hills. Wealthy socialite Chrissie Montgomery is missing. Young, naïve, and set to inherit an enormous fortune, she's a walking target, ripe for someone to get their claws into. Her dying father and his sultry bottle-blonde girlfriend...
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
ONE OF TIME MAGAZINE'S 100 BEST MYSTERY AND THRILLER BOOKS OF ALL TIME • The renowned novel from crime fiction master Raymond Chandler, with the "quintessential urban private eye" (Los Angeles Times), Philip Marlowe • Featuring the iconic character that inspired the film Marlowe, starring Liam Neeson.
In noir master Raymond Chandler's The Long Goodbye, Philip Marlowe befriends...
In noir master Raymond Chandler's The Long Goodbye, Philip Marlowe befriends...
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
The renowned novel from crime fiction master Raymond Chandler, with the "quintessential urban private eye" (Los Angeles Times), Philip Marlowe • Featuring the iconic character that inspired the film Marlowe, starring Liam Neeson.
In The Lady in the Lake, hardboiled crime fiction master Raymond Chandler brings us the story of a couple of missing wives—one a rich man's and one a poor man's—who have...
In The Lady in the Lake, hardboiled crime fiction master Raymond Chandler brings us the story of a couple of missing wives—one a rich man's and one a poor man's—who have...
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
The renowned novel from crime fiction master Raymond Chandler, with the "quintessential urban private eye" (Los Angeles Times), Philip Marlowe • Featuring the iconic character that inspired the film Marlowe, starring Liam Neeson.
A wealthy Pasadena widow with a mean streak, a missing daughter-in-law with a past, and a gold coin worth a small fortune—the elements don't quite add up until Marlowe discovers evidence...
A wealthy Pasadena widow with a mean streak, a missing daughter-in-law with a past, and a gold coin worth a small fortune—the elements don't quite add up until Marlowe discovers evidence...
6) Playback
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
The renowned novel from crime fiction master Raymond Chandler, with the "quintessential urban private eye" (Los Angeles Times), Philip Marlowe • Featuring the iconic character that inspired the film Marlowe, starring Liam Neeson.
In noir master Raymond Chandler's Playback, Philip Marlowe is hired by an influential lawyer he's never heard of to tail a gorgeous redhead, but then decides he'd rather help out...
In noir master Raymond Chandler's Playback, Philip Marlowe is hired by an influential lawyer he's never heard of to tail a gorgeous redhead, but then decides he'd rather help out...
Author
Language
English
Description
The renowned novel from crime fiction master Raymond Chandler, with the "quintessential urban private eye" (Los Angeles Times), Philip Marlowe • Featuring the iconic character that inspired the film Marlowe, starring Liam Neeson.
This collection by crime fiction master Raymond Chandler features four long stories in which private eye Philip Marlowe is hired to protect a rich old guy from a gold digger, runs afoul...
This collection by crime fiction master Raymond Chandler features four long stories in which private eye Philip Marlowe is hired to protect a rich old guy from a gold digger, runs afoul...
Author
Series
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
[2014]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
290 pages ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Raymond Chandler's incomparable private eye is back, pulled by a seductive young heiress into the most difficult and dangerous case of his career. "It was one of those summer Tuesday afternoons when you begin to wonder if the earth has stopped revolving. The telephone on my desk had the look of something that knows it's being watched. Traffic trickled by in the street below, and there were a few pedestrians, too, men in hats going nowhere." So begins...
11) Marlowe
Series
Publisher
Warner Bros. Entertainment
Pub. Date
2011.
Edition
Remastered edition.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (approximately 96 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Five hundred bucks doesn't come easily for private eye Philip Marlowe. But when it comes by way of a bribe, it might as well be five cents. He rejects Winslow Wong and his offer of cash... and Wong promptly karates the detective's office into a junk pile.
Author
Series
Everyman's library volume 257
Publisher
Knopf
Pub. Date
[2002]
Physical Desc
xxxvii, 1,299 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
13) The big sleep
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2000]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (230 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
L.A. private eye Philip Marlowe takes on a blackmail case and follows a trail peopled with murderers, pornographers, nightclub rogues, and the spoiled rich.
Author
Series
Philip Marlowe mysteries volume 10
Publisher
Mulholland Books/Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
303 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"Marlowe, against his better judgment, accepts two missing person cases, the first a daughter of a faded, tyrannical Hollywood starlet, and the second, a British child stolen from his mother by his father. At the center of The Goodbye Coast is Marlowe's troubled and confounding relationship with his father, a son who despises yet respects his dad, and a dad who's unable to hide his bitter disappointment with his grown boy"--
15) Poodle Springs
Author
Series
Philip Marlowe mysteries volume 8
Language
English
Description
Marlowe is back, and he's married to a rich, beautiful society lady who wants him to settle down in the posh desert community of Poodle Springs. Marlowe may have married rich, but old habits die hard: he's hired to recover a gambling debt and soon finds himself in a case involving bigamy, pornography and murder.
Author
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
[2013]
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
304 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"Something More Than Night is a Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler inspired murder mystery set in Thomas Aquinas's vision of Heaven. It's a noir detective story starring fallen angels, the heavenly choir, nightclub stigmatics, a priest with a dirty secret, a femme fatale, and the Voice of God. Somebody has murdered the angel Gabriel. Worse, the Jericho Trumpet has gone missing, putting Heaven on the brink of a truly cosmic crisis. But the twisty...
17) Only to sleep
Author
Series
Philip Marlowe mysteries volume 9
Publisher
Hogarth
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Physical Desc
256 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
18) The long goodbye
Series
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (112 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Private investigator Philip Marlowe helps a friend out of a jam, but in doing so gets implicated in his wife's murder.
19) Marlowe
Publisher
Universal Studios
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
1 DVD + 1 Blu-ray (110 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A noir crime thriller set in late 1930s Bay City centers around a brooding, down-on-his-luck detective; Philip Marlowe, who is hired to find the ex-lover of a glamorous heiress, daughter of a well-known movie star. The disappearance is the first twist in a series of bewildering events, and soon Marlowe is embroiled in a deadly investigation and web of lies that he's determined to bring to light.
Author
Series
Library of America volume 79
Publisher
Library of America
Pub. Date
[1995]
Physical Desc
1,199 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
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